Can the Effects of Gravity Be Canceled? by James Lee Hoover

James,

There is a tendency for many in the scientific community to latch on to a term and use it as a descriptor for "something" that is in deviation with the established definition. On page 6 of your essay, you quote Krauss, who used the term "vacuum of space", describing it as "nothing" and it is "unstable."

The contemporary definition for the "vacuum of space" are those characteristics that are measurable in a vacuum measured somewhere on the Earth's surface. Oddly enough, the characteristics of the Earth vacuum have measurable permittivity and permeability. The measurable characteristics never seem to make it into various papers descriptions of empty space, the vacuum of space, the void of space, and the ever popular, free space.

I have read that Boeing has an active decades long anti-gravity research effort. Is your essay influenced by knowledge of Boeing's effort?

James,

Having some knowledge of how the government and defense contractors do things, I would never go out on a limb and "suspect" a defense contractor would or would not use a certain approach to solving a problem.

I have found reports on the web, where researchers, using a specific physical effect, have measured changes in the weight of objects that were subjected to a particular type of physical effect. Everyone of these experiments had a common characteristics, the spin of "something."

James, Gary,

There is an odd satellite motion that gets a lot of study, and a number of individuals have been trying to identify the cause. The LAGEOS-1,-2 satellites, passive laser reflectors, were given a specific spin when released from their carrier vehicles. They are spinning down, LAGEOS-1 has almost stopped spinning, plus LAGEOS-2 is falling faster than contemporary theory supports.

LAGEOS-1,-2

LAGEOS falling

I haven't followed the latest reports, but in the early ones gravity shadowing effects, Sun, Earth, satellite, were never mentioned as a possible contributor. An abstract of a later report considers, "(2) the Earth's gravity field," but I do not have access to the full report.

Spin axis behavior of the LAGEOS satellites

Dear Jim,

These are the types of questions, one has to really answer for themselves.

For me, I will explain my reasoning for each of your questions:

1. Is there a beginning to the Universe?

a. The simple answer is NO. However, if you believe that "Time" is momentary, as I do, then the Universe or Universes are created in every moment, so the answer would be "Yes" in that sense. But for all intense and purpose behind your question for me, the answer is an absolute "NO." As Infinity, or a beginning presupposes that nothing existed before the Big Bang, and something surely did exist before. That is the conundrum of "Infinity."

i. NOTE: As well the Big Bang is only our Universe, as you look at the CMB, and beyond, there is much more to space than our small little universe.

2. Yes we are separated from the Infinite, as we are finite matter. And Infinity, cannot be circumscribed. Infinity is beyond understanding. If it were understandable, then it would be defined. And anything that is defined, is "Finite." Infinity by definition cannot be defined. Again, if it were, it would be finite, hence not infinite. It is a paradox, which is the engine that runs the Universe(s). Without the Infinite and the finite, we would be non-existent, and the nature of Space and Time, would not allow for that. Read my Essay "Infinite and Finite" @ www.otterthink.wordpress.com .

3. Death again is a question, no one knows about. I am agnostic, as I have to be to be honest with myself. But for me, when I die, I will become part of the Infinite, and depart the finite.

4. Religions, and Cultures, formed answers before, we had much science through the shamans, and spiritual leaders to find purpose.

a. Today, we have with the Galileo's, and Copernicus's of the world - have found new answers to these old traditions of mythology and hope for purpose, that religion and culture developed. So we are slowing changing some of our previous superstitions, such as burning witches, and so on. I believe we are becoming a more loving world, as we release on some of the behaviors religions and ancient cultures gave us. Such as killing infidels, and so on.

b. Important to note Religion and some cultures gave us the "Golden Rule", and values of the greatest measure of good too. So you have to decide for yourself which parts of Religion you accept and which you must abandon.

Hope this answers some of you thoughts, but they are the most difficult of questions, as science even tells us we do not understand very much in this Universe(s).

Thanks for the questions, and All the Best to You,

Russ

James,

I just read your outstanding essay. I would like to share some relative thoughts and not so realitive: Please review my BLOG: www.otterthink.wordpress.com for Essays:

1. Pancake Universe

2. Hope, Goals and Realities through the Prism of Physics

3. Our Universe Science and Potentials in Review (Section 3) Primarily

Thanks and Congrats,

Russ

Dear James

Thank you for a interesting and well-presented paper. You have framed your views in terms of conventional physics of gravity (GR) and gravitons, the vacuum foam etc. which you know from my writings are ideas I feel should be recast in terms of dielectric ether lattice interactions. In discussions of my FQXI article you asked me what my Beautiful Universe (BU) theory would say about anti-gravity. I will answer it here.

In (BU) gravity is not a force as such, but comes about as the result of the redistribution of angular momentum in ether nodes making up the vacuum which are in turn affected by the rotation of matter nodes. An essential point in my theory is that most of the nodes in the universe follow the right-hand rule and spin in the same sense. This allows torsion to exist in a chain of ether nodes between any two objects. Fig. 18 of this pdf of my (BU) paper shows this and therin lies the answer to your question. BTW my original (BU) paper's illustrations show the nodes spinning with a left-hand-rule, the mistake was corrected in the pdf. The rest is in the geometry of the linkage between the network of gazillions of magnetic nodes between two pieces of matter- and in engineering: will a rotating object weigh more or less according to whether the net relative rotation between it and another object be clockwise or anti-clockwise? How much rotation will create how much anti-gravity (if any?).

I have not thought enough about anti-matter in terms of (BU) - is it merely the switching of (plus minus) pole configurations of the polyhedral structure of the particles making up matter? Or is it a more esoteric result of ether nodes spinning using the left-hand rule if any exist? Hmmm

Now to continue googling about UFOs, rotating Nazi Bells, LAGEOS spin, Vacuum energy generation and other related stuff - its fun but as you point out it is hard getting reliable hard evidence about such things.

Again thank you for a very interesting article and question. Do you have a website about your UFO engineering speculations?

Vladimir

Jim, I would add one addtional essay, as it also relates to your other questions as well, as it does to your essay related to gravity:

Add: Connections : Found @ www.otterthink.wordpress.com

Hope this is of interest...

Russ

Dear Jim,

Loved your response. However, that is our fate. Answers are endless, not conclusionary. That is the engine of existance.

You have a great talent and intrinsic interest... Never let it go.

Cheers my friend,

Russ

Hello Mr.Hoover,

One day Mr Hoover, we shall see all the truth and we shall say all, oh my god, how it was possible that we have not seen this universal evidence before.It was so simple that this. :) eureka from belgium :)

Now about the ufos, I am very interested, you know all days I dream and extrapolate the lifes inside our universal 3D sphere. I ask me how are the tools of the nasa and other interesting labs. I ask me what are new the technologies.or if rational datas about ufos have been seen. When I see the numbers of galaxies turning around OUR CENTRAL UNIVERSAL SPHERE. I say me , oh my god ,we are numerous inside this Universal sphere in SPHERIZATION HARMONIZATION OPTIMIZATION.

If they are more evolved and so a correlated consciousnees understanding that the energy is at a maximum, see my equations for all spheres, quant.or cosmol.,E=m(c²o³s³) and mcosV:Const.considering the 3 motions of a sphere, so c linear velocity, see that hv turns in the other sense than m, see also the central sphere, the most important volume.We have after o orbital vel. and s spinal velocity of the analyzed sphere of the system of spheres(see that the volumes and the serie of fractalization from this central sphere becomes an universal key at the two scales).So we can extrapolate that if they come, their technology is correlated.Their consciousness also.Perhaps they just study us for their simple knowledge.After all, are we ready to see these ufos arriving ? perhaps that only a minority can understand this universality. So they are prudent in fact.Or perhaps they can help us with new technologies and models of harmonization.

You know ,at this moment where I write, it exists an ocean of lifes inside this Universal sphere in 3d complexifcation, a number so important of planets with lifes.Already in our milky way, I am persuaded that it exists many planets and lifes.You imagine with all the galaxies.It is fascinating.We are travellers from stars, from galaxies....from this universal sphere, we trun, all truns in us, around us,above us.They turn so they are these quantum and cosmological spheres in 3D. The 3D is so fascinating with all its creations. They build these spheres, they evolve.

Mr Hoover, I beleive that the heat and the thermodynamics with the pression and the volumes can show us the road of diversities of creations inside this universal sphere. The mass adapts itself to its spherical system of mass.My equations permit to understand the volumes of the serie and so the complexification with this mass.The system can be computed with several approximations due to these volumes of this universal serie begining from the central sphere.

We are travellers of stars, the future is to travel in spaceships, it is evident !And even it is a priority for the humanity, indeed we cannot prevent a meteorit !The consciousness seems simply these travels of protection even !

Regards and good luck in this contest.